St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-24
tai e DAKOTA MAILS.
Important Additions to BE Made to
the POSTAL SeFVice.-Conln ,E ssioner
Sparks and q XEScoNSin Character.

important Additions TO BE Made to
the POSTAL SeFVice.-Conln ,E ssioner
Sparks and a Wisconsin Character.
Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-There are in
dicationS at the postoffice department that
the mails will go flying all over Dakota
when the spring season comes, and that the
mail facilities of the territory will be almost
doubled. The second assistant postmaster
general will issue calls for bids, at the close
of the present quarter, for mail carrying
The new lettings Will be for star service in
Mercer, McHenry. Sargent and Mclean
counties, besides additional lettings for IN
creased service in those which are already
fairly we'll supplied with mail transporta-
ton. The route from Miles City. Mont,
to Spearfish, Lawrence county, OAK, will
be greatly expedited This is one of the
most important routes in the Northwest,
and the increase will be made
in order to keep pace with the
increased business of that section and the
largely increasing settlement all along the
line. Of the 200 applications, which are
on file for postofceS, not less than 100 will
be favorably considered by the first assist
ant postmaster general. All along the new
railroad routes which are being pushed in
the North, new offices will be established
and the railway mail service will be in
creased, in order TO meet the demands
which will necessarily be made upon it.
Money order offices are being petitiOned for
all over the territory. These are only
granted, usually. at the close of a quarter.
1t is expected that q score of new money
order offices will be added to the number
now in running order in the territory, SO
thot N MANILA will N No M tro1 nj
such long distances in order 10 send OF re-
ceive remittanceS.
SPARKS ON THE NEWSPAPERS.
Special 10 the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Commissioner
Sparks smiled brightly, and even with a
degree of exclamation, when asked concern
ing the irreparable injury which his recent
Ortier in regard to the identification of set
tiers will work in the territories. He said:
This is 4 big Office, and it would take ten
men working ten times as long as / do or
can to chase up all the newspaper liars and
refute the fruit of their imaginationS
There is nothing unusual. nothing dramatic
nor novel in this new order. 1t is simply
the enforcement OF common law in such
matters. That is all. Do we naturalize
citizens in this country without proof OF
their identity? Do we question witness
in court without asking his name. where he
resides and all about him? Do
we make any contracts with par
ties unless we know exactly with
whom we are dealing? Never. The pub
lie lands are given away. immigration is
invited and encouraged. Twill not say that
| approve of our immigration laws as they
stand for they are too lax. But. under the
laws, immigration is encouraged and in
vted. People are coming to our shores
annually almost by the million. They come
for homes. The public lands are open to
them. They become naturalzed, after
Identification, and then take up lands and
go to work. Before they can have any Of
our lands, we must know them to be who
and what they represent themselves to be.
| am simply trying to carry out the common
and statutory laws of the country. may
make some mistakes, but so do you and all
of us. I'm on the right track. and the
newspapers cannot help or hinder me-"
\ WISCONSIN CHARACTER.
SPECIAL to the Clone.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-There was bur-
led here this week man once well known
in some parts Of WisconSin-RObert Ream,
brother Of Winnie Ream, the sculptor. He
was born at Madison and lived there several
years. Bob Ream had been a noted char
acter in the Indian territory for twenty
Years. He was an adopted citizen of the
Choctaw tribe for a much longer period.
His early associations among the Indians
led him to adopt in a great measure the
reckless disposition of the class with whom
he was brought into daily contact, and he
became dissipated. getting into trouble on
more than one occasion, and getting out of
it one time through the influence Of his sis
ter, Miss Winnie. He was man of nerve,
and added huge feather to his cap by kill
ing Ben Jones, the worst desperate the
Indian territory ever produced. Jones
had for years been the terror of that section.
and was in the habit of riding into the little
town out there and making the inhabitants
take to the woods. On the day he met his
death he went to McA lister for the avowed
purpose of killing Ream. when the latter
got in the first shot and saved his own life.
He was never punished for it, the general
verdict being that he had performed right
eous act Rob Ream was buried in Glen
wood cemetery.